The remnant sun faded away from the hills, and dirty old lanterns hung under the eaves on both sides of the street.

Lu Liangsheng led the old donkey across the road, the remote county in the north has many similarities with Fushui, the ranger with the sword is full of wine, carrying a wine bottle and walking through the street, the pedestrian glanced at it, and hurried by.

The vendor put away the tables, chairs and benches, picked up the burden and prepared to leave, the inn with floating banners, the people were noisy, the shopkeeper Xiao Er passed a table of dishes, walked to the door, tore off the rag on his shoulder, welcomed the two guests, and did not forget to shout twice outside.

"Walk through the guest officers to take a look, smell it, there is no one at home, the stove is cold, the mother-in-law goes back to her mother's house, no one cares, you might as well come in and drink mellow rice wine, shave hot corn, comfortable tight, as well as delicate lamb, dripping oil, ......"

Walking past this inn, the toad Daoist probed his upper body, looked at the inn, sniffed hard, and smacked his lips.

"Liangsheng, the teacher thinks it's not too early, don't wander around the deserted streets, find an inn, rest early, and have to hurry tomorrow morning. ”

The inn was full of guests, the aroma of wine and vegetables wafted out, Lu Liangsheng's stomach 'growled' twice, and he looked back at the toad on the donkey's head with a smile.

"Master is hungry too, isn't he?"

On the donkey's head, the toad Taoist was looking at the plate of meat passed in the inn, and when he heard the apprentice's words, he quickly turned his eyes away with a serious expression.

"Looking at what to do for the teacher, how can the teacher be so unbearable?"

"Actually, I'm hungry too, and I haven't eaten anything hot along the way, and I'm a little hungry when I smell it, so I'll stay here tonight, and I can put some wine on it by the way." ”

Lu Liangsheng naturally wouldn't break it, he reached out to take out the silver money in his cuffs, and the toads and frog webs on the donkey's head all grabbed up, staring at the dishes passed by the inn, and opened his mouth excitedly.

"If you want to eat braised pork, it's best to cut a few taels of tender mutton, and it must be steamed, and the hard-boiled eggs are also good...... Suck and slip. ”

Without waiting for the apprentice to reply, the toad turned back anxiously, Lu Liangsheng's smile froze on his face, and his hand turned out the money bag from his sleeve, and only a few coppers slipped into the palm of his hand.

"Master, we don't seem to have any money. ”

Toad: "......"

When he came out of the house, he had more than thirty taels on him, Lu Liangsheng thought it was enough to spend outside, and he didn't take it once when he went home.

"Hegu County, the capital, Heliangzhou, and returned to the capital, and now they are going north all the way to stay in a hotel, eat, and buy wine, and the silver is spent like this......"

'Goo~'

The toad man stood up, smelled the wafting aroma of the food, and swallowed his saliva.

"Just use illusion to change some silver taels and eat the meal first. ”

"You can't buy and sell at a loss. ”

The scholar was also hungry, but the illusion was fake after all, he had never done it, and he didn't have the face to do it, so he took out half a cake and gave it to the toad, led the old donkey to the eaves of the street not far from this inn, and then took out the four treasures of the study from the bookshelf.

"What are you going to do here?"

Seeing that the apprentice had polished the ink, the toad Taoist held half a piece of bread and stretched out his head to look at it while chewing it.

I saw Qingmo wandering away from the tip of the scholar's pen, and in a moment, the old donkey suddenly moved aside, a small banner appeared out of thin air, a pestle on the ground, a long table, and three rows of calligraphy and painting hangers rose from the ground one by one.

"Alright. ”

Lu Liangsheng's last stroke fell, and the four words 'calligraphy and painting Changdao' appeared on the banner.

"Instead of cheating and suffering things that are bad for conscience, it is better to be self-reliant, don't you say Master?"

The pen, ink, paper, and inkstone were put on the long table, and the blank scroll in the bookshelf was taken and put on, and Nie Honglian's scroll of paintings was unfolded and hung in the most conspicuous position, as a signboard to attract customers.

"Red mercy, don't mind. ”

On the scroll, the woman swinging blinked.

"As long as Childe doesn't really sell the slave family. ”

"Hmph. ”

The toad was also hungry, sat down against the foot of the table, bit the cake, closed his eyes, swallowed it vigorously, and glanced at the scroll.

"I'm selling you, and I'm not going to come back on my own. ”

In the painting, Nie Honglian also snorted, swinging, and her beautiful eyes looked at the scholar who was busy hanging the painting.

"Childe is reluctant. ”

"Don't talk, beware of scaring guests away. ”

Lu Liangsheng finished everything, sat down behind the long table with a big grin, in the field of vision, the street lanterns were shaking, it was deserted and there were few pedestrians, the night wind was blowing from the street, and a dead leaf swirled and floated past the stall.

"Uh...... As cultivators, aren't we a little miserable?"

The toad held the scraps and opened one eye.

"Remove the word 'we'. ”

These words made De Honglian laugh directly in the painting, Lu Liangsheng covered his forehead with a smile, habitually took the black-veined gourd, and shook it in his hand.

"Well, there's no wine. ”

When lamenting, in the inn near the street, the warm yellow lights were shining out, and five people hooked their shoulders, staggered and laughed and walked out.

"Brother Chongwen has a good amount of alcohol, he really deserves to be a northern man!" "That's, otherwise, how would the four of us and the other four come to join Wang Sheng." ”

"Confused, how can you call Wang Sheng, from this moment on, the four of us will be called Brother Chongwen!"

"Haha, that's the reason...... Brother Chongwen, let me get the lantern, I'll take it!"

Among the four people, the man with a light cyan scarf on his head, his appearance was elegant and elegant, and the lantern in his hand was snatched by the four people, and he sprinkled his cuffs with some satisfaction, and said with a smile:

"The name of Nanxiang Sixiu, Wang is also thunderous in this side, fortunately, there is quite a lot of land at home, the four of you can study here with peace of mind, and you will get fame here in the coming year, don't go back to the Southern Dynasty. ”

The four of them were suddenly excited.

"Brother Chongwen, generous and heroic. "That is, we also have a scholar over there who is 'in a hurry, Lu Langzhu', but he is definitely not as generous and hospitable as Brother Chongwen. ”

"That Lu Lang is just an urgent matter, Brother Chongwen is a gurgling spring, quenching our thirst. ”

praised violently, causing Wang Chongwen to wave his hand again and again: "I don't dare to be so praised." But the smile on his face couldn't be closed.

At this time, the scholar who was carrying the lantern suddenly saw a stall on the street in front of him, thinking that it was selling noodles and dog meat for supper, and when he got closer, he found that it seemed to be selling calligraphy and paintings.

"Brothers, look over there, there are still calligraphy and paintings being sold. ”

"Haha, just over for a tasting. ”

Wang Chongwen was boasted by the four of them, the whole person was very excited, shook the sleeves of his robe and shook towards the stall, and sure enough, the simple hanger was full of calligraphy and paintings: hideous beasts, birds in the mountains and forests, and there were also many blank paintings.

The most conspicuous painting of a beautiful woman swinging on a swing made his eyes light up and he couldn't help but give him a thumbs up.

"It's good to draw! I don't set up a stall to sell calligraphy and paintings at night, it's hard for anyone to buy it." ”

Behind the long table, Lu Liangsheng saw that there was a business coming to the door, and arched his hand: "Aren't the five of you here, look at it at will, or let me draw a picture below." ”

His eyes swept over the five people, and when he saw the four scholars on the side, the corners of his mouths couldn't help but smile, and he probably recognized who they were.

However, it was raining that day, foggy, and holding umbrellas, so the four scholars felt that Lu Liangsheng was a little familiar, and they couldn't recognize the people who were on the boat together that day.

One of the four scholars saw a donkey with a bald tail not far away.

"I don't think I've seen this donkey anywhere. ”

In front of the painting stall, Wang Chongwen stared at Hong Lian's words for a while, then turned his head and asked:

"How do you sell this painting?"

"This one doesn't sell, and it can't be sold. ”

Seeing that this Confucian was puzzled, Lu Liangsheng waved his hand, took off the red mercy scroll, and whispered: "Soliciting business." ”

Hearing this, Wang Chongwen's doubts were immediately dispelled, and he didn't force him to buy, looking at the young man in front of him, the other party was wearing a dirty old scholar's robe, and couldn't help asking:

"You have good calligraphy and beautiful paintings, but you are in the middle of the road, so you sell calligraphy and paintings on the street for a living? ”

Lu Liangsheng put away the scroll and refused with a smile.

"That's not necessary, you pick another one"

"That's okay, but if you want your family to prosper, you still have to get famous. Wang Chongwen no longer persuaded him, crossed the picture scroll of the fierce beast with a hideous face, and picked a picture of a bird returning to the mountains and forests.

"How much is this?"

"Sixty-two texts. ”

It was the price of a room and a meal in the inn over there, but the four scholars over there shouted:

"Your painting is really expensive. "Brother Chongwen, I don't think it's better to buy it. ”

"This scholar is poor and insane. ”

Lu Liangsheng didn't refute it, his eyes looked at Wang Chongwen opposite, there was something on the other party's forehead that was difficult for ordinary people to see, and a wisp of black gas coiled, from the art of observing qi learned in "Qinghuai Supplementing Dreams", this is a harbinger of bad luck.

"This brother, if you like it, buy it back, and you will know if it's worth the price later. ”

"God is chattering, how can I believe it when I am studying......"

The four scholars also wanted to say, but they were interrupted by Wang Chongwen raising his hand, he took out the money bag from his sleeve, roughly counted out the copper coins and put them on the table, and took the scroll in his hand.

"That's it, farewell!"

Lu Liangsheng watched the five people leave, weighed the string of copper coins on the table in his hand, and then was stunned.

"Seventy?"

Looking at the figure that had gone to the end of the street, he laughed.

"To receive more benefits from others is to repay the good fruits, alas, Master will go, take you to eat a good meal!"

Under the table, the toad Taoist looked at the string of copper coins in his hand, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

"You only said that you had eaten all the bread for the teacher. ”

Hiccup~~

............

Woohoo!

Barking!

The streets were dark, the barking of dogs sounded in the distance, and the five men carrying lanterns turned a street corner, and the surroundings became remote.

"Brother Chongwen, that person is obviously pretending. "Yes, a painting is too expensive, it's just a slaughter. ”

"Well, let's go back and return the painting. ”

Wang Chongwen waved his hand indifferently, walked among the four of them, and looked ahead.

"A scholar is willing to sell words and paintings on the street, and he is extremely poor, you and I are both literati, and we should help you and others. ”

The four of them immediately arched their hands.

"Brother Chongwen is right. "A benevolent heart, we are a role model!"

The moonlight was cold on the street, there was a thin mist, the barking of dogs came faintly in the distance, and the direction of the five people passed, far away, a slender figure, holding the burden, was stumbling and running.